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EXCLUSIVE: After a highly profitable collaboration with Bazalevs principal Timur Bekmambetov on the Screenlife film Unfriended ($1 million budget, $65 million worldwide gross), Universal and Bekmambetov have made a deal to partner on five more films shot in the format. Screenlife is a disruptive form of storytelling…

EXCLUSIVE: TikTok meets the movies? Prolific Russian director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, whose credits include multiple Hollywood pics such as Searching, Ben Hur and Wanted, is set to go into production on V2. Escape From Hell, the first blockbuster movie made entirely in a vertical format. Bekmambetov is…

Timur Bekmambetov is leaning in heavily on what he calls ScreenLife storytelling, a disruptive format which eschews traditional cameras for methods that visually drive the narrative through stories that unfold from the POV of smartphone and computer screens, where most of us now spend the bulk of our waking…

Each year when Deadline runs its film profitability countdown, readers understandably ask about wildly profitable films, usually genre pictures, that don’t merit inclusion on the basis of highest domestic gross. But that doesn’t mean these films don’t tell compelling stories in their own right. So this time, we…

4th UPDATE, 1:05 PM PST: Disney had an explosive weekend worldwide. Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron ended up the weekend internationally with a cume of $439.8M on a weekend pull of $168.8M and it hasn’t yet hit China. To date, its worldwide cume is now $631.1M, upped by the better than expected domestic take…

UPDATED, Monday, 2:24 PM: Furious 7‘s tank is no where near empty. The racing machine came in this morning with a total of $29.1M in its third week of release to push its total domestic cume to $294.5M. And nothing should stop from taking the box office crown again it next weekend. Segwaying into the No. 2 spot is Pau…

It seems Hollywood finally has found a way of getting teens offline and in line. Just make a movie like Unfriended, where the entire 82-minute running time takes place in front of a computer screen. Blumhouse has done it again. As I say in my video review above, they have made a cheapie horror thriller that is…

UPDATED, Friday, 8:08 AM: Sony Pictures’ just reported late night Thursday numbers for its Kevin James-starring comedy Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 which segwayed in with a preview gross of $450K. The comedy bowed in a 7 PM preview on roughly 2,619 screens. It’s been difficult to find a comp for this one, but general…

Universal Pictures’ Furious 7 is expected to have another weekend atop the box office Top 10and will likely stay put until Disney/Marvel’s The Avengers: Age Of Ultron stops it in its tracks May 1. We say this because the franchise film dropped 60% last weekend and still drove in with a $59.6M prize. Will the comedy…

Bringing the second day of WonderCon to a chilling conclusion, Jason Blum’s horror movie factory Blumhouse rolled out gruesome clips from four of its upcoming films during the final panel of the day. The room wasn’t packed like it was during the Warner Bros.’ film panel that kicked the day off. But those in attendance…